ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE (Code No. 101) SYLLABUS CLASS X (2018-19) SECTION - WISE WEIGHTAGE IN ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE Section Total Weightage 80 A Reading Skills 20 B Writing Skills with Grammar 30 C Literature Textbook and Extended Reading Text 30 TOTAL 80 Note: The Board examination will be of 80 marks, with a duration of three hours. SECTION A: READING 20 Marks 50 Periods This section will have two unseen passages of a total of 700-750 words as per the details below : Q.1: A Factual passage 300-350 words with eight Very Short Answer Type (VSA) Questions. 8 marks Q. 2: A Discursive passage of 350-400 words with four Short Answer Type Questions of eight marks to test inference, evaluation and analysis and four VSA to test vocabulary and comprehension (two VSA for vocabulary and two for comprehension) 12 marks SECTION B: WRITING AND GRAMMAR 30 Marks 60 Periods Writing :- Q. 3: Formal Letter (Complaints / Inquiry / Placing order / letter to the editor) in about 100-120 words. The questions will be thematically based on the Main Course Book. 8 marks Q.4: Writing a short Story based on a given outline or cue/s in about 200-250 words. 10 marks Grammar :- The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas in class X. 1. Tenses 2. Modals 3. Use of passive voice Page 2 of 20
4. Subject verb concord 5. Reporting (i) (ii) (iii) 6. Clauses: (i) (ii) (iii) Commands and requests Statements Questions 7. Determiners 8. Prepositions Noun clauses Adverb clauses Relative clauses The above items may be tested through test types as given below: Q. 5: Gap filling with one or two words to test Prepositions, Articles, Conjunctions and Tenses. 4 marks Q. 6: Editing or Omission 4 marks Q. 7: Sentences Re-ordering or Sentence Transformation in context. 4 marks SECTION C: LITERATURE TEXTBOOK AND EXTENDED READING TEXT :30 Marks 60 Periods Q. 8. One out of two extracts from prose / poetry / play for reference to context. Four Very Short Answer Questions: Two questions of one mark each for global comprehension and two questions of one mark each on interpretation. 4 marks Q. 9. Four Short Answer type Questions from the Literature Reader to test local and global comprehension of theme and ideas (30-40 words each) 2x4 = 8 Marks Q.10. One out of two long answer type questions to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts. (100-120 words). 8marks Q.11. One out of two Very Long Answer Question on theme or plot involving interpretation, inference and character, in about 200-250 words based on prescribed novel text for extended reading. 10 Marks Page 3 of 20
Prescribed Books: Published by CBSE, New Delhi INTERACT IN ENGLISH SERIES 1. Main Course Book. 2. Workbook. 3. Literature Reader. EXTENDED READING TEXTS (either one): a. The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank ( uploaded on CBSE website) b. The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller ( unabridged edition) NOTE: Teachers are advised to: (i) (ii) (iii) Encourage classroom interaction among peers, students and teachers through activities such as role play, group work etc. reduce teacher-talk time and keep it to the minimum, take up questions for discussion to encourage pupils to participate and to marshal their ideas and express and defend their views, and Besides measuring attainment, texts serve the dual purpose of diagnosing mistakes and areas of non- learning. To make evaluation a true index of learners attainment, each language skill is to be assessed through a judicious mixture of different types of questions. Reading Section: Reading for comprehension, critical evaluation, inference and analysis are skills to be tested. Grammar: Grammar items mentioned in the syllabus will be taught and assessed over a period of time. There will be no division of syllabus for Grammar. Listening and Speaking Skills. 50 Periods Page 4 of 20
Textbooks Literature Reader PROSE 1. Two Gentlemen of Verona 4. A Shady Plot 2 Mrs. Packletide s Tiger 5. PatolBabu 3. The Letter 6. Virtually True POETRY 1. The Frog and the Nightingale 2. Ozymandias 3. The Rime of Ancient Mariner 4. Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments 5. Snake DRAMA 1. The Dear Departed 2. Julius Caesar Main Course Book 1. Health and Medicine 4. Environment 2. Education 5. Travel and Tourism 3. Science 6. National Integration Extended Reading Texts (either one) Diary of a Young Girl 1947 June 12, Diary of a Young Girl 1947 March 16, 1942 to March 14, 1944 By Anne Frank 1944 to August 01, 1944 By Anne Frank (unabridged edition uploaded on CBSE website ) (unabridged edition, uploaded on CBSE website) The Story of My Life 1903, Chapters The Story of My Life 1903 Chapters 1-14 By Helen Keller (unabridged edition) 15-23 By Helen Keller (unabridged edition) Page 5 of 20
WORK BOOK* Suggested Break-up of Units for the purpose of classroom teaching only NOT FOR TESTING (see the following note). 1 Determiners 8 Comparison 2 Tenses 9 Avoiding Repetition 3 Subject-Verb Agreement 10 Nominalization 4 Non-Finites 11 Modals 5 Relatives 12 Active and Passive 6 Connectors 13 Reported Speech 7 Conditionals 14 Prepositions Page 6 of 20
Class - X English Communicative 2018-19 (Code No. 101) SAQ 30-40 LAQ-II VLAQ 200-250 Testing competencies/ VSAQ 1 100-120 words Typology words Marks learning outcomes Mark Words (HOTS) 2 marks 8 marks 10 marks Reading Conceptual understanding, Skills decoding, analyzing, inferring, interpreting and 12 04 --- --- 20 Vocabulary Creative Expressing an opinion, Writing reasoning, justifying, Skills and illustrating, appropriacy Grammar of style and tone, using appropriate format 12 --- 01 01 30 and fluency. Applying con ventions, using integrated structures with accuracy and fluency Literature Recalling, reasoning, Textbook appreciating, applying and literary conventions, Extended extrapolating, illustrating Reading and justifying etc. Texts Extracting relevant 04 04 01 01 30 information, identifying the central theme and sub themes, understanding the writer s message and writing fluently. Total 28 x 01 08 x 02 02 x 08 = 02 x 10 = 80 = 28 marks = 16 marks 16 marks 20 marks marks Page 7 of 20